PROJECTS

Here, you will find a one-stop-shop for each SOC ACE research project including publications, information about events and external engagement, media and contact details for researchers.

Afghanistan, Balochistan, Iran, Pakistan Asiyah-Vanessa Dubuisson Afghanistan, Balochistan, Iran, Pakistan Asiyah-Vanessa Dubuisson

Power Brokers and Illicit Markets in the Frontiers: Balochistan, Borderlands and the Taliban

The project seeks to investigate how illicit markets shape and are shaped by the local political, power, patronage and frontier dynamics in Balochistan - the area spanning the frontier regions of three countries: Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.

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Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran Asiyah-Vanessa Dubuisson Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran Asiyah-Vanessa Dubuisson

Narcotics smuggling in a new Afghanistan

This research is part of the project ‘Monitoring the evolution of the illicit economy in Afghanistan’ which seeks to develop an overarching framework to better understand how a monitoring system for illicit markets in Afghanistan could operate. This will provide policy-makers in Europe and elsewhere with more advanced tools for scenario planning illicit trade developments and thereby formulate more effective policy responses against them. The research paper examines Afghanistan’s narcotics trade and smuggling patterns, which are intertwined in different ways with the economic fate of the Afghan state and society.

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